Warrior model kit bought from a "BX" circa 1972-76

That is beautiful!!!!!! Something about an uncovered airplanes structure appeals to me. Organization, alignment, mathematics all there.

Vincents play a promenant role in my family tree on my fathers side, mostly originating from the central Massachuetts area. You might be a brother from another mother from long-long ago.

rsv1cox wrote:
Vincents play a promenant role in my family tree on my fathers side, mostly originating from the central Massachuetts area.  You might be a brother from another mother from long-long ago.  

Vincent Ballou Franklin Sr. and Jr...... my mom's dad, and little brother. My mom's family is native to S.E. Massachusetts. I grew up in Franklin, MA as my mom did. My dad was from midwest USA..  Iowa.

My mom's dad; Vincent B. Franklin Sr.

1st grade.. Plainville, MA. He was born in 1912.. and would boast: "The year the Titanic sank..."



a few years later..



with wife Marion (Bartlett) Franklin, (holding baby Vincent Jr.) my mom (Nancy) and her older sister.. (Roberta) circa 1948?

Ah, given name not sur.

My Aunts name was Vera Vincent Vining as a nod to that side of the family.

The Warrior and others in that series have no plywood doublers from the fuse to the engine crutch. It's balsa to beams which can literally shake apart especially a old model like the one you picture. Aliphatic glues were typical of construction for the motor mount to balsa and Ambroid or the likes of for the fuse. I've built two Warriors and the performance isn't exactly stellar. Built from the box , the plane builds heavy and the construction has more wood than needed. The spars for instance are not needed and don't do anything aside from leaving a ugly bump in your covering. Dumas kits had some fairly heavy wood within them. Not always a bad thing but the Warrior has a short wingspan and a thin wing so it needs to fly fairly fast to perform. I built one with flaps and one without. I say this to others quite a bit, small planes don't require flaps and it does nothing other than lose wing area when activated. This plane is no exception and mine with flaps essentially dropped two feet when controls were moved quickly. The plane stalls and loses speed which isn't a good recipe for a stunter.

The Chief from this series was a pretty good plane, much larger. There were quite a bit of these, the Papoose, Squaw, Tomahawk, Brave, etc. The key to these is keeping the weight down. Not a easy task using box stock wood . Using a smaller modern engines with more power than the older larger vintage engines is practical.